Prayer in times of epidemic
(Extract from the Roman Ritual, Titulus IX, Chapter X) V. Lord, do not treat us according to our sins. R. And do not punish us according to our iniquities. V. Help us...
Category: Modern World
Spiritual Communion (continued)
In the Middle Ages, when the faithful were accustomed to receiving communion only at Easter time, pious people, generally...
Prayer of Saint Alphonsus Liguori
My God, I believe that you are present in the Blessed Sacrament. I love you above all things, and my soul longs for you, since I cannot...
Spiritual Communion according to Saint Alphonsus Liguori
My God, I believe that you are present in the Blessed Sacrament. I love you above all things, and my soul longs for you. Since I cannot...
François Lagarde, photographer of Ernst Jünger
Eulogy for François Lagarde, friend of 25 years, photographer of Ernst Jünger, whose film, "The Red and the Grey," is a testament. François Lagarde has passed away...
Being yourself
Being oneself never fades into habit. Identity is a search and an affirmation, a permanent enantiodromos, like a state of siege...
The revolutionary and forgiveness
The revolutionary has no appetite for forgiveness, for he detests the gift that seems suspect to him and the other with whom he could have sealed his future. Po...
The will alone or the will alone
Antigone knows that man must not rely solely on his will. Here too, it is a question of power swelling with its own pride. Willpower alone becomes corrupted...
The time is not right for governments to last
The future Pius IX, still a cardinal, responding to Emperor Napoleon III, said this: "Sire, when great statesmen like Your Majesty object to me that the child...
Marie Lataste in 1843
Jesus Christ said to Marie Lataste during the vision she had in 1843: "The first king, the first sovereign of France, is me! I am the master...".
Our secret, a mystery
We each have our own secret, which we initially keep a mystery to ourselves. Marcel Jouhandeau, in Elements for an Ethics. Grasset Publishers.
Diversity (continued)
…Sounge i felibre esteba… I think of the Félibres… It is characteristic of good artisans of Diversity, to turn it inside out like this. I will be….
Diversity
I don't know if, like me, hearing the word "diversity" (which has replaced the word "Other") makes you feel nauseous. Victor Segalen is an author who acts...
Antigone, defiant and intimate (7/7. Love)
Part 7 and final part: Love. Antigone's desire is familial; she does not want to leave her brother unburied. Creon, on the other hand, desires to...